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Poster:	dead-head_Monte	Date:	January 17, 2012 11:24:32am
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Staff Requests Suggestions for 'Spotliight Item'

Monte's Taper Handbook for The Internet Archive

Several years ago, I started transferring and publishing shows I taped nearly 40 years ago. "I took my own approach" in this process...

I'm combining my firsthand experiences back then with a lot of reverse-engineering of archival materials found on the internet today. I do not own, nor have I read, any GD books. My old albums are long gone. Many of my cassette copies of them remain in excellent condition. I'm not a music critic and I try not to rank shows. Thank you "Light into Ashes" for contributing your knowledgeable musical essays.

I'm connecting elements across the internet, and threading this rich history into a tapestry as I see it — from the point of view of a Hippie-Cowboy-Trail Grub, GD lover, Taper, soundman, electronics tech, and Broadcast Engineer. I am provoking thought.

• 12 Hours Dark: Internet Archive vs. Censorship

• Taping Equipment & Getting Started Taping

• Transferring Old Tapes and Uploading to The Archive

• Pitch Correction & Speed Correction issues with old tapes

• Content, Copyright, and the Creative Commons attribution

• Audio Streaming & Downloading Shows from The Archive

• Managing a Music Library on a PC & loading music on an iPod

• some info about Internet bandwidth and speed limits

• The Supers(p)eed Bit Torrent Project - How-to & Update

• Internet Archive's founder Brewster Kahle interviews with Amy Goodman

Grateful Dead web pages and some musical documentation

Taper's inside story about the June 1973 GD shows at RFK Stadium

The Allmans and The Dead connections

Jerry Garcia's guitar history

Jerry Garcia Discography

Pigpen — reams of talent

Phil Lesh on trumpet — his jazz tapes from 1959

Robert Hunter's boxed set — his tape collection on The Archive

Dark Star — an in-depth Master Class taught by NYC pianist Dave Frank

CBS Documentary - Hippie Temptation - 1967

Owsley Stanley — the Bear, biography

Owsley Stanley — the Bear, 1991 interview with David Gans

Sound System and The Crew

Bear speaker arrays vs Bose speaker arrays

Alembic and Ampex Corporation technical know-how

The Era of Tape Recording

Ampex invents the Video Tape Recorder in 1955

Taper's portable cassette recorders - early 1970s

Taper's "reel changes" explained

Taping the Europe '72 tour on a 16-track Ampex deck modified by Alembic

FM radio broadcasting The Dead

Grateful Dead Photography - by Jim Anderson

Grateful Dead - photo slide show - 1971 to 1974

The Grateful Dead's Early Thematic Jams

Grateful Dead acoustic sets 1969 - 1970

Grateful Dead guest appearances 1967 - 1975

Fillmore East broom closet tapes - GD & NRPS, April 1971

Grateful Dead — European Tour 1972 boxed set

Grateful Dead Forum — European Tour 1972 notebook

Grateful Dead dancing girl — Rosie McGee dances in video on 17 April 1972

Grateful Dead — Old Rennaisance Faire Grounds, Veneta, Oregon on 27 Aug 1972

Grateful Dead — Watkins Glen Summer Jam 1973

Grateful Dead — Roosevelt Stadium — Jer b'day shows in 1973

Grateful Dead — May Days 1977 and Sugaree

Grateful Dead roots and the Greenpeace connection

Grateful Dead response to the Kent State Massacre

Grateful Dead and their "Cowboy spin"

Cowboys debated

Cadre of musicians debated

Mark O'Connor unleashed at 15! Vince Gill at 18! Monte is busted sharing music!

Vassar Clements boxed set - middle 1970s taped by Monte

Sam Bush boxed set - middle 1970s taped by Monte

Vince Gill boxed set - middle 1970s taped by Monte

Scotty's Music - 1976 Int'l Steel Guitar Convention taped by Monte

Grateful Dead tape collection on The Internet Archive

Hunter's Trix boxed set - the Seamons GD Matrix collection on LMA

Grateful Dead Family Discography

Grateful Dead - songs played - graph created by Dr. Beechwood

Grateful Dead Betty Boards archive

The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics

The DeadLists Project

DeadBase Online Search

Creating a new Taper's Compendium online

Keywords: Grateful Dead; RFK Stadium; Monte Barry; Bill Gadsden; Kevin Tobin; audience recording; sound boards; music collections; bit torrents; eTree trackers; The Bus; Wall of Sound; audio equipment; P A systems; sound systems; sound engineering; sound crew; Owsley Stanley; the Bear; tape recording; reel to reel; cassette decks; portable tape recorders; tapers; Alembic; Ampex; technical audio documentation; photo collection; Dead pics; downloads; live music; AUD; FOB;

Billy for President rap

• Monte's Occupy Wall Street Handbook — take action & get involved

• Net Neutrality discussion — with Updates

• the Petition to Free artist Ai Weiwei appears to be working

• Rapture? or Reality Check?

• Global Warming and Climate Change discussion

• Peace and Reconciliation Movement discussion

• Halt the sale & planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready® GMO seeds

• Monte's "stop doing Poudre River Trail police patrols" movie

• GD photo collection - 937 images - 260 MB Zip file

• Grateful Dead - "free tickets" on the LMA

• Jer shooting at tapers and matrix-makers

• Monte's taper highlight reel

• Stop bulk-erasing our Tapes!

• secret Dead twins

• Trolls - go away!

Creative Commons license: Attribution — non-commercial use only.

— PEACE —

Lost video tapes discussions a reel of 2-inch quad videotape compared to a miniDV videocassette

— webmaster — 420bikeandhike AT gmail dot com Monte's "taper resume" Monte's tapes on The Archive GD banter track

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 1985 • Challenger Productions tapes
• engineered by Glenn Hill & Monte Barry
• videotaped on one-inch reels
• June 21-23, 1985 lost video tapes details

The 12th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival -- June 21-23, 1985
Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band • John Hartford • Seldom Scene • Tony Trischka and Skyline • Hot Rize • Tony Rice • Nashville Bluegrass Band • Chris Daniels and the Kings • New Grass Revival • Doc and Merle Watson • The David Grisman Quintet • Peter Rowan and Crucial Country • Mark O’Connor • Bryan Bowers • Alaska’s Hobo Jim

Bluegrass Alliance band with Vince Gill • WDRB-TV studio tapes
• produced by Monte Barry, Mike Harpring, and Steve Doss
• videotaped on two-inch quad reels
• May, 1976 lost video tapes details

Jerry Garcia Band • Duke University tapes
• produced by Duke students
• videotaped on three 7-inch reels of ½" video tape, "sitting" in Duke's Archives
• April 4, 1976 lost video tapes details

European Tour 1972 • Tivolis Koncertsal • Copenhagen, Denmark
• produced and engineered by a Copenhagen TV station
• videotaped on two-inch quad reels
• April 17, 1972 lost video tapes details

Important new videos coming into circulation

all of Monte's Items available on The Archive

Monte's 'retired Taper' speech:
• Old Tapers never die; they just 'Not Fade Away'.

Taping is as natural to me as riding a bike.
Born to Tape in 1951 - Monte and his dad riding bikes in 1954

These days I'm still riding my bicycle all over the place.

Going to shows and Taping in the audience is like being a Trail Grub.
Monte the Trail Grub - Colorado's Mt. Columbia peak - December, 1980

These days I'm still hiking on trails all over the place.

Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive, asks:
What do we do when we hit 1M songs, 100k concerts, 5k bands on the Live Music Archive?

The Archive is giving away Free Swag Hats.

If you uploaded at least 10 shows to the LMA

• Charlie Miller is awarded shnid 100,000!

• The Internet Archive Statistics web page - takes a few moments to load

This post was modified by dead-head_Monte on 2012-01-17 19:24:32

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Poster:	splue	Date:	May 18, 2011 05:54:45pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: blondies

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Poster:	dfrank111	Date:	May 18, 2011 06:43:16pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Staff Requests Suggestions for 'Spotliight Item'

Hi Monte, thank you very much for your review of my GD master class and for putting it on your page. Much appreciated:)

Blessings and keep swingin,

Dave Frank
NYC

PS - there are about 12 such classes on youtube and Ustream, all for you for nuttin:)